THREAD: Many have described @Columbia’s response to the government’s conditions for returning funding as a “total capitulation”. It’s not. While there are some positive changes, let’s go through the response point by point, and discuss the good, the bad, and what’s missing. 🧵 First, note that @WSJ reported that @Columbia was considering reforms on the government’s list since summer, and that there was “considerable overlap between needed campus changes” and the demands. It’s disappointing that it took governmental pressure to implement these changes.

🚨NEW: A shocking report from the @nypost announces a new federal investigation into @Columbia after janitors trapped in the Hamilton Hall occupation reported retaliatory harassment for reporting antisemitic conduct. Let's break it down. 🧵 nypost.com/2025/03/17/us-… Lester Wilson and Mario Torres, two janitors who work @Columbia, started noticing an increase in racist and antisemitic graffiti in Nov. 2023. “No matter how many times Mr. Wilson removed the swastikas, individuals kept replacing them with more.”

THREAD: There’s a lot of misinformation running around about Grant Miner, president of @Columbia’s graduate student union, and the reason for his expulsion. @UAW and other orgs have been trying to turn this into a labor or free speech issue. It’s not. Let’s clear things up. 🧵 First, let’s make things clear. Grant is not a “peace activist”. On Oct 9th, 2023, he was photographed at a protest holding a sign justifying Oct 7th: “Resistance against occupation is a human right!”. Oct 7th was not "resistance", it was terrorism.

This week has been overwhelmingly chaotic and disappointing for students across @Columbia and its next door sister college, @Barnard. Much has happened, so let’s recap- a thread 🧵 (1/11) After the Trump Administration threatened to pull all federal contracts from Columbia on Monday (a move that would seriously hurt the Jewish students and researchers at the university), CUAD felt the next day was a good time to release never-before-seen footage of the “Battle of Hind’s Hall” aka the occupation of Hamilton Hall last April. Choice moments include throwing large chairs at police officers entering the building through a window. We’ll soon see this was in planned foreshadowing of the days to come…(2/11)

🧵THREAD: @Columbia admins effectively sanctioned ANTI-ISRAELI DISCRIMINATION toward students in the Tel Aviv University (TAU) dual-degree program.
The @EdWorkforceCmte report exposes shockingly high levels of apathy from former President Shafik and senior administrators towards students in the program experiencing overt discrimination on campus. (Screenshots in thread from pgs. 52-56) (1/n)
Students in the TAU dual degree program “reported experiencing harassment on campus” since October 7. Canceling the program has consistently been one of SJP, JVP, and CUAD’s principal demands of @Columbia. (2/n)

THREAD 🧵: We've compiled some of the worst incidents from @Columbia's disciplinary data in @EdWorkforceCmte's report. Let’s do a deep dive into what Jews at @Columbia have been reporting and, more importantly, how Columbia responded… (Data from Pgs. 141-186) (1/n) A student reported being threatened by a protest “guard”, a former acquaintance, just for wearing a hat with Hebrew writing. The “guard” was not disciplined by @Columbia. (2/n)

STUDENT TIES TO TERRORISM AT COLUMBIA: Last week @Columbia student and @ColumbiaBDS leader Mohsen Mahdawi praised his “martyred” cousin and his high-ranking Hamas friends on Instagram:
“I received the news of the martyrdom of my cousin,...Masra Masharqa, after a clash with a traitor Zionist force, who tried to assassinate him along with his companions, the resistance team, Wussam Khazem and Arafat Al-Amer, but it didn't work until the planes entered and bombarded them.”
Masra, Wussam, and Arafat were Hamas terrorists eliminated by the IDF. (1/4)


Wussam Khazem was the leader of Hamas in Jenin. Masra Masharqa, Mohsen’s cousin, was described by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as one of its “most prominent field commanders”. Mohsen, a @Columbia student, wrote “we saw him as a leader of a fierce resistance fighter”. (2/4)
cnn.com/2024/08/30/mid…

The Task Force on Antisemitism at @Columbia has just published their second report. We recommend reading the full report (), but we've compiled the most egregious details of what Jewish and Israeli students experienced this year... THREAD 🧵...president.columbia.edu/sites/default/… Student groups @Columbia ostracized their Jewish members. Below, a student’s email to the board of the @BarnardCollege dance team, and their response, eventually removing her from the team. (Pg. 20)

Columbia students and affiliates held and publicized events that featured suspected terrorists. Family members of convicted terrorists bypassed security to visit the encampment, endangering Jewish & Israeli students.

When a faculty member on the university senate brought this up, her mic was shut off, in violation of senate rules.

@LevineJonathan at the @nypost:
nypost.com/2024/05/11/us-… Example #1:
Nahla Al-Arian, the wife of convicted terrorist Sami Al-Ahrian was spotted earlier this month paling around the school’s Hamas encampment.
Citation: nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-…